Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everybody knows that the back-room politicians who really run things are big and fat and chew cigars, right? And Jesse Unruh, 41, is the back-room boss of California's Democratic Party. So at 5 ft. 11 in., he should weigh about 277 lbs., have a 48-in. waist and leave cigars in shreds. Well, that's just how he was until he decided he didn't like the way the image fit. Or maybe it was the clothes. First, he chucked the cigars, then he cut out drinking and went on a diet...
Like a road company version of the boss, the husky, bushy-browed Soviet President displayed the common touch. Waving a glass of vodka at a Soviet Embassy reception, Brezhnev gaily shouted "Down with protocol and long live freedom." The performance did little for protocol but even less for freedom. For a royal banquet at Golestan Palace, Brezhnev specified in advance that proper dress would be a business suit (the Empress appeared in a filmy black gown, without her tiara). He visibly caused raised eyebrows at one dinner by licking his fingers after heaping caviar on a slice of toast. Riding...
...hard to catch. Dr. Reines, who landed the first ones, is in charge of the South African work. The site was chosen because a deep mine was needed to screen out cosmic rays, which would interfere with the experiment. India has such a mine, but the Indians wanted to boss the experiment themselves. Reines turned to South Africa where the University of the Witwatersrand offered him an unusual laboratory: a gold mine near Johannesburg shielded by 10,492 ft. of solid rock...
...declared war against Franglais, the pidgin French-English that has flooded la belle langue with U.S. neologisms. French newspapers speak of call-girls, cliff-dwellers, containment, fairways, missile-gaps, uppercuts. French sociologists analyze le melting-pot, out-groups, ego-involvement. French business roils with words like boom, le boss, fifty-fifty, soft-approach and supermarket...
Eastern's new boss is articulate Floyd Hall, 47, who resigned as general manager of Trans World Airlines to take the job. A hard-nosed administrator, Colorado-born Hall joined TWA as a co-pilot in 1940, worked his way up through the flying side until he was appointed general manager in 1961. He has played a key role in turning faltering TWA into a thriving airline...